Holi, the festival of colours, is played in most of India for one day ( this year it will be on 25th March ). But in Braj Mandal ( the area around Mathura city (Â comprising of Mathura, Gokul, Vrindavan, Govardhan, Barsana, Nandgaon, etc ) ) it is played for oneContinue Reading
Bill Tammeus is my American friend, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. USA with his wife Marcia. He had come to Allahabad with his parents and 3 sisters in 1957. Bill’s father was an agriculture expert from Illinois University who had come for 2 years to India to teach modernContinue Reading
Dr Vatsa and Valli have unscientific understanding of religions. I recently saw this interview of Dr Aviral Vatsa, who is a medical practitioner living in Scotland, by Valli Bindana, a film maker who lives in California. Both are of Indian origin. Dr Vatsa and Valli are both self proclaimed atheists (Continue Reading
A fascist reign of terror has been imposed by the army and police in Pakistan, over ten thousand people have been arrested and jailed on false and frivolous charges, many beaten, tortured, killed, or just ‘disappeared’. The judges, who took an oath to protect the people’s rights, have become deaf and dumbContinue Reading
In the special session of the Indian Parliament which will be sitting from September 18-22, among the other bills will be a bill for increasing women’s representation in Parliament and state legislatures to 33% I regard this as a gimmick, for two reasons : 1. In our semi-feudal society in India, most ( notContinue Reading
Bill Tammeus ( email : wtammeus@gmail.com ) is an American who had come with his father, an agricultural expert, to India in 1957-58 with his family, and was my classmate in my school, the Boys High School, Allahabad. He then went back with his family to America, and became aContinue Reading
Udayanidhi Stalin, a Minister in the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, and son of the Chief Minister MK Stalin, in a speech has called Sanatan Dharma as a disease like malaria, dengue, corona, etc, which has to be eradicated. His speech has stoked up a row Some DMK supporters haveContinue Reading
It seems that life in Pakistan has become hellish, with exorbitant electricity bills, skyrocketing prices of food, gas cylinder, petrol; medicines, etc, record unemployment, and fascist reign of terror unleashed by the Pakistan army and police, so that many Pakistanis want to migrate to a foreign country. https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/pakistans-economy-suffers-as-brain-drain-reaches-record-levels-619158 Some are even willing toContinue Reading
Many people from both India and Pakistan have asked me how I say that India and Pakistan are really one nation, only temporarily divided by the British swindle called Partition, on the basis of the bogus two nation theory ( that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations ), butContinue Reading
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is prominently in the news these days, and I have been his strong supporter on the social media for long ( though I have never personally met him and am not connected to him in any way ), as he is bravely leading the democraticContinue Reading